Penny Pleasance

Penny Pleasance studied cooking under Henri Lévi at his New York cooking school, La Cuisine Sans Peur, and has also studied cooking in Brussels and Tuscany. She has lived or worked in New York, London, Brussels, and Strasbourg, France and has been a cooking enthusiast since she picked up her mother’s copy of Julia Child’s Mastering the Art of French Cooking in 1978. She blogs at Stories from Scratch.